I like the Gnome System Monitor utility, because it displays the current kbps going through my router/hub, and you can click on the info tab when they ask, wow that computers amazing, what is it? And it even gives you the nickname for the OS eg Roaring for UB13.o4

Inkscape because I can: a) single-source high-quality scaleable graphics for export to all kinds of media, including native display in HTML5, and b) open the code in Gedit and fix/learn stuff.

Re. the survey, thousands of years of paper and ink technology have not changed our near-universal preference for black text on white ground. Blackboards changed to whiteboards in my lifetime. There is a reason for that change.

"Klinger, do you know how many zoots were killed to make that one suit?" — BJ Hunnicutt, 4077 M*A*S*H

Re. the survey, thousands of years of paper and ink technology have not changed our near-universal preference for black text on white ground. Blackboards changed to whiteboards in my lifetime. There is a reason for that change.[/quote]

Remember the old Sinclair's? I had a ZX81, Then a Spectrum+, then a Spectrum +2. They were al;ways black text on white bacground.

towy71 wrote:I must say that having switched to green on black everything else just looks wishy washy and much harder for these old eyes to read

The most readable is said to be yellow or similar on dark green. Green blackboards with hideous yellow chalk dominated my schooldays in the late 1960s. We used to hide the yellow so Teacher had to use the white. Numbers on A road signs are still equally hideous to this day, though mercifully much white lettering has crept in.

In the bad old days before my migraine tablets I used cream on dark muted green with my SAM Coupe for a while. But then I found (by much trial-and-error) that dark red-brown on a light mushroom brown was even kinder. Think sepia on parchment by the light of a single candle, and you understand the renaissance artist's sketchbook a little better. e-ink designers please note.

"Klinger, do you know how many zoots were killed to make that one suit?" — BJ Hunnicutt, 4077 M*A*S*H